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Like other people, I’ve been wondering how Oracle has integrated many of Sun’s technologies and hardware after buying that company. Oracle has just started a nationwide tour to inform us of just that. The first stop was in their neck of the woods, Palo Alto, California. The free semin...
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Obama’s lip service on transparency apparently was just that, and it was also meant to exclude how his light-footed FCC champ Julius Genachowski danced a two step around Net Neutrality. The current news is that Julius, "called off its closed-door meetings with big Internet compan...
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagine the experiences of other people,...
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I have done consulting work for MySQL as it enters the Japanese market for more than three years. I have not seen Marten Mickos for a few years. I wondered what his next move would be after he left MySQL. I heard he became CEO of Eucalyptus, which is gaining visibility in the crowded cloud compu...
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I am always on the watch for interesting stories about green IT, cloud computing, and smart grid. When someone pitched me a story about the container-based data center (CDC), I did not pay much attention because, at the time, CDC was dismissed as only for large companies like Microsoft and Google. B...
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When I am struggling with jet lag, I often spend the night hours up and working. It is advantageous because my colleagues in the U.S. are up and working as well. The payback comes in the afternoon. The lack of sleep sinks in around that time. In any event, today I was watching a TV program on cloud ...
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I have not touched upon cloud computing for some time. I just came across a very interesting company in this space. Its name is ServiceMesh.
Mark Thiele, an expert in data center/cloud computing, mentioned this company. He was nice enough to introduce me to Dave Roberts, VP of marketing at ServiceMe...
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Last October, the Data Center World keynote address was delivered by a facilities person. This year, it was delivered by Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix, who is IT enough for me.
Brian Lillie
The title of his presentation was "Are You Ready to Ride the Four Tsunamis About to Hit Your Data Cente...
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When I had time to kill between meetings in Tokyo, I dropped by a major bookstore near the Tokyo Station. In the computing book area, I found a special section on cloud computing. Like in the U.S., cloud computing is getting a lot of attention in Japan. The premise of cloud computing is easy access ...
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As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later.
Regulatory pressure on data centers
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Webcast: Using Claims to Simplify and Secure User Access to Applications and Services
Kim Cameron, Distinguised Engineer and Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, updates his highly rated session from RSA Conference 2009.
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Because I cover Japan as well as the U.S., I often talk with Japanese data center operators about their interests. In these Internet times, some U.S. news is delivered to Japan instantly, but they want to talk to real data center operators and experts to find out how things are in their day-to-day o...
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In recent data center conferences, one thing that attracted my attention was cloud computing. For most people on the facilities side of the data center, cloud computing is pretty new. One keynote speaker emphasized the importance of cloud computing, and data center operators should take notice of it...
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I had an opportunity to meet with Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics.
When I do research on the cloud computing space, I see a lot of cloud computing providers. However, I think you cannot use the services without some expertise. Livschitz was OK with my saying that Grid Dynamics is a system i...
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SOX. HIPPA. GLBA. Basel II. NERC. Each mandate carries a unique set of challenges for compliance – especially when it comes to access control and data management. As IT management looks for better answers, the advantages of cloud-based, two-factor authentication continue to gain favor. This pa...
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